There’s less than a month until iOS 27 launches, and increasingly interesting leaks are emerging about the changes Apple is preparing for iOS 27. The main highlight — the Camera app will become customizable, and some controversial Liquid Glass decisions are being rolled back. The system will be officially unveiled at WWDC on June 8.
Apple will seriously tackle several built-in apps
New Camera Settings on iPhone in iOS 27
The most notable change concerns the camera. Users will choose interface elements themselves — flash, exposure, timer, depth of field, photo styles, and resolution. Apple calls these buttons widgets and allows you to arrange them at the top of the interface in any order.
You’ll be able to select widgets from a transparent panel that slides up from the bottom. They’re divided into categories: basic, manual settings, and system parameters. Photo and video modes will have their own sets, and a new Siri mode will be added — it will integrate Visual Intelligence features that are currently accessible through the Camera button or the Action button.
Now you’ll customize the layout of elements in iPhone camera
An important point: the familiar interface isn’t going anywhere. Apple will keep the current layout with quick buttons for flash, Live Photos, and night mode as the default. The customizable option will be available as a separate advanced mode — designed for those who shoot frequently and intentionally.
Another rearrangement: the block with all camera settings, currently accessed from the upper right corner, will move to the right of the shutter button. New grid and horizon level options will appear.
How Safari and the Weather App Will Change on iPhone
The Weather app will get a separate Conditions panel for switching between temperature, precipitation, and wind. Essentially, it’s the same interface that currently opens when you tap on one of the weather modules — just brought to the surface.
Safari will get a convenient start page
Safari will get an updated start page. Four tabs will appear at the top for quickly switching between favorites, bookmarks, reading list, and history. It’s not a revolution, but navigating saved links will become faster — currently, each of these sections requires diving into a separate menu.
Liquid Glass in iOS 27: How Apple Will Change iPhone Design
An interesting detail — system design changes. In Apple Music, Podcasts, News, and Apple TV, the bottom navigation bar will be redesigned: search will be merged back with sections. When Apple introduced Liquid Glass (the new interface style with a glass effect), search was separated into a standalone element — and based on the leak, the company is returning to the previous unified panel.
Search is returning to the shared navigation bar
If you’ve used macOS Tahoe 26, the Liquid Glass concept is familiar: transparent layers, blur effects, emphasis on “glassiness.” The style itself remains, but Apple seems to have listened to complaints about navigation.
iOS 27 has also accumulated several smaller changes:
- the on-screen keyboard will get a new animation — keys will slide up from the bottom;
- when customizing the home screen, undo and redo buttons will appear — handy if you accidentally dragged an icon or deleted a widget;
- updated widget logic within the Camera app itself.
These are exactly the kind of tweaks that don’t make it onto the WWDC stage but feel more impactful in daily use than the headline features.
iOS 27 Release Date
iOS 27 will be unveiled in less than a month at WWDC 2026
Apple will hold the iOS 27 presentation at WWDC on June 8. Until then, everything we know is a Bloomberg leak, not confirmed facts. The final feature set may differ, and Apple may postpone some changes to later updates.
If you shoot a lot on iPhone — it’s definitely worth following: a customizable camera with Siri mode and Visual Intelligence looks like the most useful of the rumored features. For those who use their iPhone in “call, text, open maps” mode, the leak doesn’t promise anything critical — you can safely wait for the fall release and update without rushing.
